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"Make yourself a question, if ALL movement stop (include atoms), will time pass?" That's pretty much asking "If time stops, will time pass?" - which doesn't re
by kruczek 12y ago
"Make yourself a question, if ALL movement stop (include atoms), will time pass?"
That's pretty much asking "If time stops, will time pass?" - which doesn't really answer anything. Stopping all movement is not something we ever see in the universe (well, we couldn't see or experience it anyway). And yet we see movement - we see everything changes.
I think time may be a human construct to order these changes, but it is also a property of the universe (whether fundamental or emergent) which allows such change to happen in the first place.
- lucio 12y agoIf time is just movement, time is not a particular property of the universe, just a construction of ours as observers. Then the universe is matter, space and movement, and "time" is one useful illusion to ourselves, but it is not a property of the universe.
- mkr-hn 12y agoEverything in human perception is an abstraction of the underlying reality.
- kruczek 12y agoIf "time is just movement", then it is an emergent property of the universe (and movement, or more generally - change, would be the fundamental property). Still it wouldn't mean that time is just a construct we created, as it would be firmly rooted in the underlying fundamental property (the movement you mentioned). If on the other hand it is the opposite (and based on the way we experience universe, I'd rather think it is the opposite) - then "movement" would be the emergent property of space and time; and both space and time would be more fundamental properties. In either case I don't think "illusion" is the right word, as it implies something non-existent or unreal. And even if it is an emergent property, it would still emerge from some more fundamental properties and thus would be quite real.